JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez says he has the affidavit of former Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao on the Dacer-Corbito double-murder case, and that some government officials are implicated in it.

“I am the only one in possession of his affidavit, but I cannot reveal the details yet” Gonzalez said yesterday.

“In due time we will make the affidavit public.”

Senator Panfilo Lacson last week challenged the administration to make Mancao’s affidavit public, stressing he had “nothing to do” with the murder of publicist Salvador Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, in 2000. That case is to be reopened once Mancao returns from the United States in about three weeks.

Lacson was chief of the National Police when Dacer and Corbito were murdered.

The two men were abducted in broad daylight along the South Superhighway on Nov. 24, 2000, and by gunmen believed to be members of the police force.

Their charred bodies were found four days later in a creek in Indang, Cavite.

Mancao aside, two other former police officials—Senior Supts. Michael Ray Aquino and Glenn Dumlao—have been tagged as suspects in the case. All of them had worked under Lacson.

Aquino and Dumlao are also in the United States and facing extradition.

Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said Lacson should not overreact unless he wanted to attract suspicion over the unsolved case.

“The only time we can make a reaction is when Mancao has already arrived,” Remonde told a radio interview.

“Those who will overreact and make premature reactions will only make themselves suspects.”

Remonde said Mancao had specifically asked the Justice Department not to turn him over to the police once he was extradited.

“Mancao said he does not want to be turned over to the PNP for whatever reasons he may have,” Remonde said.

“He will be fetched by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation in the US, and when he arrives here, the NBI will provide protection.” Joyce Pangco Pañares